Home Base
Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA
Foundation of Teaching
Buddhism, Compassion, Self-Realization, Presence, Non-Duality, Love
Example of Teaching
“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth”
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Books
Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics)
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Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears
Contact
P.O Box 77063 Steamboat Springs, CO. 80477 970.846.2699 margie@pemachodronfoundation.org pemachodronfoundation.orgPema Chödrön
Pema Chödrön was born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in 1936, in New York City. She attended Miss Porter’s School in Connecticut and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. She taught as an elementary school teacher for many years in both New Mexico and California. Pema has two children and three grandchildren.
While in her mid-thirties, Pema traveled to the French Alps and encountered Lama Chime Rinpoche, with whom she studied for several years. She became a novice nun in 1974 while studying with Lama Chime in London. His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa came to England at that time, and Pema received her ordination from him.
Pema first met her root teacher, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, in 1972. Lama Chime encouraged her to work with Rinpoche, and it was with him that she ultimately made her most profound connection, studying with him from 1974 until his death in 1987. At the request of the Sixteenth Karmapa, she received the full monastic ordination in the Chinese lineage of Buddhism in 1981 in Hong Kong.
Pema served as the director of Karma Dzong, in Boulder, until moving in 1984 to rural Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to be the director of Gampo Abbey. Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche asked her to work towards the establishment of a monastery for western monks and nuns.
Pema currently teaches in the United States and Canada and plans for an increased amount of time in solitary retreat under the guidance of Venerable Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche.
Quotes
- “There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.”
- “A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us.”
- “Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.”
- “Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.”
- “The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes. ”